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''Shining Through'' is an 1992 American drama film written and directed by David Seltzer and starring Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/LiamNeeson and Creator/JoelyRichardson.

In 1940, Linda Voss (Griffith) is hired as a translator for stiff attorney Ed Leland (Douglas). They eventually become lovers, but she soon becomes suspicious of his strange behavior and mysterious whereabouts. Her suspicions that he is actually a spy are proven correct when Ed emerges as a colonel in the OSS. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, when America joins the war with the Allies, Ed and his colleagues find themselves needing to replace a murdered agent in Berlin on very short notice, and despite knowing little about intelligence work, Linda volunteers, with her mission being to bring back data on a flying bomb developed by the Germans, with the help of contact Margrete von Eberstein (Richardson), which Linda thinks will be able to do by looking into officer Franz-Otto Dietrich (Neeson).
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!!This film features examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: A group of soldiers salute Ed indoors at a social gathering, which one is not supposed to do. Not to mention that they do the all-too-common mistake in films of saluting with their heads uncovered.
* FramingDevice: The bulk of the film is told in flashback, as an aged Linda is interviewed by a BBC documentary team.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Linda is all too eager to jump into becoming an agent.
* LethalChef: Linda initially assumes the role of a cook in the household of a climbing Nazi officer, but the dinner she prepares turns out to be a disaster, and the Nazi officer angrily fires her. In her defense, she arrived too late to properly prepare the food.
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Margrete]] shoots Linda twice in the chest, but Linda is able to survive and even kill her attacker. Likewise, Ed is shot twice by a German sniper while carrying an injured Linda, but he survives and manages to gets himself and Linda across the border before collapsing.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Margrete, Linda's contact, turns out to have been a double agent, who in fact was the one who betrayed the agent Linda replaced.]]
* TaughtByTelevision: Linda knows (or thinks she knows) about spying from watching spy movies. While she does correctly guess that Ed is a secret agent, her record is quite hit-and-miss (with more misses than hits).
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